[hypertele-Xii]

You've conveniently hand-waved away all the actual substance of your robot comparison. Just "stimulate objects in its environment" is an unsolved problem containing such gems as, sensing the environment, identifying objects in it, manipulating physical objects, etc.

But sure, if I imagine myself as God, I could program that. >_>

[pas]

but you don't have to "100% solve" these things, it's enough if there's an approximate and well demonstrated behavior in a specific adapted context (ie. where the robot is designed/evolved to live/operate)